Lamp-wick trimmer



(No Model.)

P; G. BEGKLEY.

LAMP WIUK TRIMMER.

Patented Jan. 23, 1883 .UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

PHILIP G. BEGKLEY, OF NEWARK, NEW JERSEY.

LAMP-WICK TRIMMER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,022, dated January 23, 1883. Application filed June 30, 1882. (N model.)

To all whom "it may concern:-

Be it known that I, PHILIP G. BEG-KLEY, of

Newark, in the county of Essex and State of New Jersey,'have invented a new and useful Improvement in Lamp Wick Trimmers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in lamp-wick trimmers, and isdesigned as an improvement on my former patent, No. 249,820, of November22, 1881; and it consists mainly in a peculiarly-constructed spring to operate on the lever, and also on the sliding cutting-plate, substantially as hereinafterset forth.

Figure 1 is a plan before cutting. Fig. 2 is the same, showing the position after cuttinga wick. Fig. 3 is a side elevation, showing the position before cutting.

In my construction the frame A is made with the guide and rest B to tit in the slot in the top of the cone of a lamp-burner, and on the same end of the frame, on the upper side, is

secured a fixed cutting-plate, 0. These parts were thesamein my tormer patent; but in this improvement back of the cutter (J, in the top of the frame, is a recess, D,into which is laid a sliding cutter-plate, E, fitted to cut the lampwick by being made to slide onto the end of the plate 0. The lever F is hung to the frame, and has an end made to pass up through a hole in the plate E. Through the end G of the lever, above the plate E, is put a pin, H,

extending across the plate E, and on this pin is put a coiled-wire spring, I, in one piece of Wire, made with duplicate parts, with an end,

K, made to hook upon each side of the rear end of the plate E, and a portion, L, in front of the pin, made to press on each side of the top of the plate E. The spring is so made that the parts K and L have a tendency to come together below the pin, and on that account the ends K. being caught over the rear end of the plate E and the front portion, L, bearing 011 the said plate, have a tendency to press the end G of the, lever up, and this carries this end of the lever and the plate back after the lever has been used to push the plate forward in the act-of cutting a wick; The spring, from the peculiar construction, having the portion L bearing on the plate E, presses it down closely on the frame and on the plate 0, as it moves on it in cutting, and the pressure increases as the cutter E passes onto the cutter O, the pottlOlLL being carried farther from the pin, and this is just what is needed, the pressure on the sliding cutter being stronger at the point of cutting the wick. The spring accomplishes 

